The Osterwald Liederbuchthe more one listens to this music the more clear it seems that the intimate alchemy binding these words and music together is potentiated by nothing less than love however one chooses to understand that word. Irrespective of further biographical considerations, and on musical grounds alone, this symbiotic relationship places the Franz Osterwald collaboration as one of the most fascinating in the history of the German lied and, until now, one of the